CS 136 Assignment 9

Description

For this assignment you are to write a program to emulate a stopwatch. It will have a display showing the current time as well as buttons to start the watch, pause it, and clear the time. A demo version is shown below.

The current system time in milliseconds (thousandths of a second) is available by executing System.currentTimeMillis();, which returns a long integer representing the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970. If you save the time the start button is clicked in startTime then System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime will return the number of milliseconds since the timer was started.

The method String timeString(long time) (included in class WatchThread) converts the milliseconds into a string suitable for showing in the display field.

I have provided you with two files: Timer.java and WatchThread.java, which provide a frame and the skeleton of a class extending Thread. Please complete the program so that your stopwatch behaves like the demo.

Goals

The goal of this assignment is to gain some experience with the Thread class.

What to hand in

Nothing! This will be done as a group exercise in lab.